Garment hanger



Patented Sept. 2, 1924..

UNITED STTES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN F. HOLLIDAY, OF fVASIEIING-TON, INDIANA, ASSXGNO'R TO HINCHER lVIANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY 0F INDIANA, OF WASHNGTON, NDANA,

F INDANA.

.A CORPORTON G-ARll/IENT HANGER.

Application filed June G, 1923,

To all cti/1.0m t may concern Be it known that l, JOHN F. HOLLIDAY, a citizen of the United States. residing at lvl/Tashingtom in the. county of Daviess and xtate of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers of reduced thickness made small to be light in weight for inexpensive shipment through the mail b v parcel post in filling mail or-` der sales and also for close assembly in use in wardrobe trunks and the like.

The object is to cheapen the cost of construction by utilizing scrap material.1 the body part of which is of bent wood that is weakened by the passage through it of a hanger-hook at the middle of the body where the greatest leverage from the weight of the garment Supported by the hanger is exerted, and one of the principal objects of this invention is to hold the form of the wooden body and stillen and strengthen it by the application of a truss-rod that will also provide shoulders. with which the large neck of coats. blouses and dresses will contact before the opposite side of the neck opening drops olf of the end of the hanger.

l accomplish the above and other objects which will hereinafter appear, by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. l, is an elevation of the hanger. Fig. Q, is a vertical section of same at the hangerhook. Fig. 3. is an end View and Fig. l is an elevation showing the hanger in use supporting a garment.

Like characters of reference. indicate like parts in the several views of the drawing.

The body 5 of a hanger is made out of wood preferably straight scrap material, quite thin which would ordinarily be wasted around a factory. This is bent. by the usual process to a suitable curve as shown. rradial hole is drilled through it at its middle to receive a hanger-hook and at points on each side approximately midway between the middle hole and the ends of the body radial sockets are drilled.

Serial No. 643,815.

A wire of suitable length has a hook 7 formed in one end and the other end is inserted in and through the middle hole of the body 5, and is secured against withdrawal by riveting a. head on the projecting end. Movement of wire 6 downwardly is prevented by an angular bend 8 which requires a downward bend 9 to properly align the hook.

The thickness of the wood 5 is just suflicient for the hanger-hook, and as such hole materially 'weakens the body at its middle where the greatest leverage from the weight ovl the garment is exerted on the body so as to break it, l reinforce the body by a wire truss-rod l0. The body oit' the trussrod l0 is straight and is assembled on and tangent with the upper curve of the body 5. The ends of truss-rod l0 are bent toward the body 5 on radial lines of the latter and are inserted into sockets formed in the body 5, between the middle and each end of the latter.

A very effective truss is thus pro-vided which stil'ens and strengthens the body and holds it from breaking or straightening out. The radial ends of truss-rod l0 also form effective shoulders to arrest garments with wide necks before the opposite side of the opening` of the garment slides ofi' of the body 5. c

The hanger can be made very light and strong, and also cheaply, because it is made out of scrap material.

Having thus fully described my invention, what l claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a garment hanger, a rigid wooden body arched upwardly and long enough to support the shoulders of a garment7 a metal hanger-hook secured to the middlev of the body, and a wire crossingL the hook above the body and bent at its ends toward the body and rigidly engaged therewith to form shoulders at places so remote from each other that the neck of a wide necked garment strikes a shoulder on one side before the opposite side slips olf of the end of the hanger, the ends being bent at not greater than right 4angles to the horizontal Wire member in the side lnext to the hook.

2. In a garment hanger, a rigid wooden body arched upwardly in substantially the arcof a circle, a metal hanger-hook Seated radially in the middle of the body, and a wire crossing the hook in a plane substan tially tangent to the body the ends of said Wire converging toward the stem of the hook and attached to the body.

Signed at Indianapolis, Indiana, this the 4th day of J une 1923.

JOHN F. HOLLIDAY. 

